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Before Plessy Abraham Lincoln was alive and said this quote ''What ever you are, be a good one.'' But he was president when Plessy was born
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Plessy vs Fergsson
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Plessy was born on March 17,1862
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When Plessy was 3 the 13th amendment was ratifed. 13th amendment: OUT LAWED SLAVERY
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When Plessy was 6 the 14th amendment was ratifed. 14th amendment:States are forbidden to deprive any persom life, liberty, or property with out due process of law. States must give equal protection to all.
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When Plessy was 8 the 15th amendment was ratifed. 15th amedment: States are forbidden from preventing a person from voting because of race, color or preious condition of servitude.
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When Plessy was 25 he worked as a shoe maker he also got married at this age
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When Plessy was 30 he challeged the law
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He challeged the law by : buying a first class train ticket and sitting in the white only seccion because he was only 1/8 black
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First, Plessy aruged that the act violated his 13th and 14th amendment rights but he lost and appealed
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Second, Plessy appealed the diceion but lost again and appleaed to Supreme Court
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Third, Plessy lost in the Supreme court then went to jail
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He went into the nice train car
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Plessy was in jail for 4 mounths in till he was bailed out.
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Plessy finally got bailed out by his family who finally found enough money to bail him out ($500)
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When Plessy was 51 the 16th amenment was ratifed. 16th amendment: A tax on income is permitted.
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When Plessy was 51 the 17th amdment was also ratifed. 17th amendment: Senators are elected by the people instead of by state legislatures.
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When Plessy was 57 the 18th amendment was ratifed. 18th amendment: The manufacture, sale, or shipment of intoxicating liquors is forbidden.
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When PLessy was 58 the 19th amendment was ratifed. 19th amendment: Women have the right to vote
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Saldy Plessy died in 1925 on March 1 at the age of 63
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After Pessy Martin Luther King Jr came around
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After Plessy a park was named in his honner
